Seattle Game Day!?! - Saturday, August 19th

[bunjee]

Edit: I decided to setup a registration because a number of people were good on Saturday. If something changes, I'll switch it back, keep voting in the poll, Seattlites!

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So it looks like there are more than 3 users in the Seattle area on the board! So I'm going to start this thread to see if we can get committed to a game.

Please select which day you would like on the poll, in about 10 days I'll setup a registration on this thread based on the majority day.

I'm willing to offer our house. The only drawback might be space, we could manage multiples of the 1 or 2 master set maps if we use both the living/dining room and the library. Flat surfaces available for up to 3 maps and seatting available for up to 12 people, if we use the lawn furniture. Of course, if it is nice, we could just play outside, but then flat surface options drop to two tables and a makeshift "table". If we just do one 4 or 5 player map, then we can fit a 4 master set and expansions map up. We have 5 master sets, 5 RttFF, 5 Lava, and 1 Tundra (getting more Tundra later)

The whole house is only 900 square feet, so if there were actually 12 people, it would get really cozy playing inside. There are also 3 cats and a dog :D The cats get locked in the bedroom on gaming days.

If anyone else wants to offer up different space, post it here. I like to snack and have drinks (not necessarily alcohol, but the option is good) when I'm playing, so please offer up places that allow food.

There is plenty of parking at my place, and many buses run near here for the non-drivers among you.

This will be so cool!

[yagyuninja]

Whoa, that's awesome...That's the start of my two weeks off this summer. I'll talk to my wife about it, but I think we might be able to do it.

That is, if you all even want an Oregonian at your get together. :D

[bunjee]

Cool!

Does the wife play or would she just be along for the trip?

[yagyuninja]

She does play, but pretty rarely.

She'll probably want to spend more time with her brother (we don't visit Seattle too often) rather than play Heroscape. We'll see though, she might change her mind!

[CornPuff]

I voted Saturday, because it works best for me. Sunday still works pretty well too. Count me in for 2 players!

[Faustus]

I'm in for either day. I may be able to talk one or two other people from my playgroup into coming along. If so, I'll post as soon as I know.

This will rock!

[Ursas]

I am extremely new to the game and have never even played anyone except my partner who was kind enough to try it out. I would love to come watch, maybe even play if the community isn't anything like the warhammer or most mini game players. I don't want to offend anyone I am just not a win at all cost kind of person. I like to have fun regardless of the outcome.

[bunjee]

I am extremely new to the game and have never even played anyone except my partner who was kind enough to try it out. I would love to come watch, maybe even play if the community isn't anything like the warhammer or most mini game players. I don't want to offend anyone I am just not a win at all cost kind of person. I like to have fun regardless of the outcome.

Oh heck ya! I really don't care if I win or not, not a competitive type. I mean, sure, I'll trash talk you a little bit, but that is just for fun.

You're welcome to join. With the number of people coming, I'm hoping to setup 3 maps and have people rotate.

I think I'll go ahead and setup the registration so we can see a running number.

[Ursas]

So where exactly is your home? Just curious. I live in Leschi.

[philthephreak]

Hey all, Sunday is clear for me, and Saturday might work. There's a wedding on that Saturday that I may be attending, but I don't know what time it is. Perhaps if it's earlier I can come by later that evening. I'll check...

For the record... Heroscape: way cooler than weddings. (unless it's your own, of course.)

[bunjee]

So where exactly is your home? Just curious. I live in Leschi.Exactly will be provided in email to the registrees :D but for close enough, I live in Greenwood/Broadview. Walking distance to Oak Tree Cinema (if you know where that is)
Buses number 5, 75, 355, and 358 all stop nearby, if you can make it to the Northgate transit center, I could come get you and take you back.

I would be up for switching to Sunday, I'm fine with either. Heck, wanna make it both days? Two days of gaming :shock:

[yagyuninja]

I registered as I'm not sure yet because that's the truth. A friend from Missouri might be in town that weekend and I can't be gone then. He hasn't cemented the date that he'll be here, so it still might work out.

Even if it doesn't though, I'll be interested in the next NW game day!

[bunjee]

I've sent messages to a few people on this site and in my normal group to come join the game day if they like. I also encouraged them to post into the thread if they decide to attend.

[Hahnarama]

5 Days, 3 hrs, 33 min!

:gencon:

:hijacked:

[JanderSunstar]

I think we can make it either day, but um... that is the day that the Lady Washington is going to be at the WBC. I know we haven't registered yet, but maybe I should check on that....

[Hahnarama]

I think we can make it either day, but um... that is the day that the Lady Washington is going to be at the WBC. I know we haven't registered yet, but maybe I should check on that....

the Lady is a net ship, but I hope the weather is cool! She was in Silverdale a few years ago and I took the kids on her. It wsa about 80 outside that made her below deck temp about 100!

[JanderSunstar]

E said he wanted to play Heroscape isntead of spending $90 for a 3 hour tour of lake Union.
What time exactly do we want to start?
Do we need to bring our figs?
Do we need to bring some food?
Do you need some extra tables? or chairs for that matter?

[bunjee]

Glad that you posted here! Thank you!

Hmm, boy, starting times hadn't been discussed yet. I figure early to mid afternoon, say 3 or 4 pm? Does anyone have an opinion on starting times?

You should bring your figs so we can show everyone how cool our cases and nail polish bases are :D

Food, sure, bring what you want to snack on. I'll probably be making a Costco run earlier in the week to get some stuff, but since I don't know what people want, it will be generic.

I should be golden on tables, I recently acquired a different dining table, but haven't gotten rid of my current table. I also have 2 folding tables in the garage. And I'm going to adopt some metal folding chairs from work that can supplement the 8 regular chairs and 6 yard chairs that I have.

Wow, I think we're up to about 10 people now.

:excited:

[bunjee]

Oh! JanderSunstar
I hope that the HouseMouse order will have arrived by then and we'll be able to try out our new Thora's Vengeance and Castles!!!!

[CornPuff]

Wednesday : Pack apartment into Relocube
Thursday - Saturday : Gencon
Sunday : Wedding in Eua Claire
Monday-Wednesday : drive to seattle
Thursday and Friday : hang out and unpack
Saturday and Sunday : Seattle Gamedays!

This is going to be a week to remember!

[philthephreak]

OK, I'm good for Saturday! I'll show up late afternoon after the wedding.

[bunjee]

Ok, looks like we are set for at least 8 people. Sweet!

I'll be sending every one email with my contact info and directions after Gencon.

[Faustus]

:cry: Due to scheduling confusion, I thought I had the 19th free and I actually do not. I would still be able to play on Sunday, but I understand that it looks like things are pretty set for Saturday.

:pray: But maybe we can have another event in the near future?

[bunjee]

I'm still up for a second day of gaming if people want to come on Sunday. I would like to know that there would be at least 3 people playing, but I have no problems giving up the whole weekend to heroscape.

But if not, there will be more days of heroscape. It is nice that there are enough active seattle area people to get a game day going. There weren't many before.

[JanderSunstar]

I am so excited, I havent played since the last time we played together!

We want castles!!!

[fuzzysadist]

What should we bring? Terrain? Official figs? Customs allowed? Snacks, etc, etc :)

Fuzzy

[Faustus]

I would be up for playing on Sunday. Anybody else?

50 percent chance I could bring one or two other people...but you can count me in for sure.

[fuzzysadist]

Anyone live in Everett? We have occasional "pick up" games about once a week at my home. Would love a few more locals on the call list :)

Fuzzy

[philthephreak]

Yo, I'm still good for Sunday - no problem. I can still do either! (But not both...)

[fuzzysadist]

I have 2 long folding conference tables I can offer up.
Also a new hex shaped coffee table thats going to be my new HS table.
I can also bring a few chairs.

Fuzzy

[bunjee]

Hello all,

I am set for tables and chairs. My house is pretty small, but it looks like the weather is going to be nice so we can always play outside.

I have 5 master sets, 5 RttFF, 4 Lava, 2 Tundra so we are probably ok for terrain.

People should bring armies they really want to play, I'll have all of mine and Elstree's but if people want to bring their entire collection, that is fine by me.

Hey Fuzzy, as for the Everett pick up games, I may be up for an occasional Everett drive, we'll chat more this weekend.

[bunjee]

Ok, I changed the registration at the top. If people want to come on Sunday, register for sunday. I'm really fine for hosting both days even if one is smaller.

I'm going to email everyone attending, so if you don't want your email to show, you should let me know now.

[yagyuninja]

Crap.

Don't think I'll be able to come this time. If I am, I won't really find out until the last minute. Well, even if it doesn't work out, I'll be on the lookout for the next NW gameday!

[brotharon]

Will I be there?


Hellz yeah I will...and I will bring cans of whoop ass for everyone to enjoy...

Oh, let the trash talking commence! :lol:

[brotharon]

So, what time is this 'ish kicking off? Where is it? Why have I not gotten this email with the details that was talked about earlier? Hmmmmmm

[Ursas]

I was wondering the time as well. I was hoping somewhere in the early afternoon as I have to take my partner to the airport, go to the gym and also do a bit of work. Maybe everyone can suggest a time that might work best for them?

[philthephreak]

So, did you guys who went to Gen Con score some stuff or what? Are we going to get to play with Castles??

Oh, and is it OK if I bring a couple people with me? Not sure if anyone's interested yet, but I know a couple more guys who love the game but aren't on HSers.com.

[brotharon]

Probably 4:00PM is best 4 me....I can be there whenever, but that would work the best...how late we play until is really of no consequence to me, but I do need to know how to get to where we are playing... :?

[fuzzysadist]

4pm+ to anytime works best for me as well.

[fuzzysadist]

Its only a couple of days til the event... still no schedule, no directions... are we still having this event? :?

[bunjee]

Yes, we are. Sorry all. I was extremely sick on Tuesday. Read: puking my guts out. Seems to be food poisoning. Not sure from what.

I'm putting together my email to you all now.

[brotharon]

You won't be throwing up on Saturday will you? I am an empathetic vomiter...meaning if you are blowing chunks all over the place it is going to make me hurl...LOL...See ya Saturday!

[bunjee]

Information sent via email.

[JanderSunstar]

I talked to Jullian a few days ago and he was trying to get out of working the evening shift so he could come over, i dont know how well that worked out, but Harv is down.

I know we discussed, but i cant remember the final word, do we bring munchkin or other game junks? pirates?
you know the quick stuff in between large war battles...

[JanderSunstar]

We should come up with a league name. Then we can be cool

[bunjee]

I have Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Carcassonne, Puerto Rico, Battleball, and tons of other games here that would be great for people if they get to wanting a break from scape. But it looks like you should bring your terrain as we discussed on the phone.

Ok all, just to clarify the space/tables etc issues. It is looking like we will have around 15 people at my house on Saturday. :shock: I'm fine with this but you all should know a few things.

My house is 900 sq feet. I have 1 bathroom. I have a sizable yard.
There will be 3 good size tables setup inside in the living/dining room space and 2 tables setup in the backyard. Since this is starting at 4pm, that gives us a solid 4 hours of outdoor gaming time.

My house is no smoking inside, I don't care about outside, I have a number of friends that smoke. As consideration for fellow gamers, smoking should be done away from the play area. Also, I don't care if people drink alcohol, I probably will, but may not.

The dog will wander around and sleep in the sun, the cats will be allowed outside that day and such will not bother the games. If they start to jump on tables, they will be banished to the bedroom.

I currently have a batch of foster kittens that are going into the adoption center on Sunday. If anyone is looking to adopt a kitten, or their mom, you can take a look at these little sweeties. I'll have a sign on the door reminding people not to open it as they are amazingly fast to get out and I don't want them to get out while the outer doors are open.

I hope this all works for everyone! And I hope I have the house clean in time! I'm not a very tidy person :? :wink:

[brotharon]

15 People in a 900 sq ft place...hmmmm...how will parking be? I have a big azz SUV and I need to know if I will be able to park it there or if I sould make provisions to bring my other car....or ride with Fuzzysadist...

[bunjee]

Plenty of parking...
http://homepage.mac.com/jls/images/myplace-parking.jpg

My house is the one in the nice bright area. There is a "Door to Door" container parked in front that will be there through Sunday. The lightened area across the street that looks like a parking lot? Pretty much is a parking lot for the Seattle Interurban trail. You can park there, plenty of space. You can also park in front of the house just north of me as it is vacant. The person south of me rarely uses his front parking and probably won't mind if we need to overflow there.
I didn't run out of parking when I had 50 some people show up for a housewarming 2 years ago, I think we'll be fine. :wink:

I'm going to park behind the house (where you see the little red car).

[Hahnarama]

MAN! I've been stalking the WRONG house!

[brotharon]

MAN! I've been stalking the WRONG house!

LOL :lol: LOL

[wisinger]

We should come up with a league name. Then we can be cool

hehe. i was snooping in y'alls thread. now i have to go back to the DFW people and tell them that we need a league name, so that we can be cool, but we better hurry up and come up with a REALLY cool one, so that we can be as cool as y'all will be when y'all get a league name.

[Hahnarama]

We should come up with a league name. Then we can be cool

hehe. i was snooping in y'alls thread. now i have to go back to the DFW people and tell them that we need a league name, so that we can be cool, but we better hurry up and come up with a REALLY cool one, so that we can be as cool as y'all will be when y'all get a league name.

Well I always joked that the DFW group was the "DFW Chapter of the Broke back Mt Fan Club" well after seeing Doc's behaivor @ The RAM I am pretty sure it's true! :P

[wisinger]

We should come up with a league name. Then we can be cool

hehe. i was snooping in y'alls thread. now i have to go back to the DFW people and tell them that we need a league name, so that we can be cool, but we better hurry up and come up with a REALLY cool one, so that we can be as cool as y'all will be when y'all get a league name.

Well I always joked that the DFW group was the "DFW Chapter of the Broke back Mt Fan Club" well after seeing Doc's behaivor @ The RAM I am pretty sure it's true! :P

we looked into it, but there were copyright issues, and parady issues, as well as complaints from spouses and other regions that felt that LARP'ing the name fell under their Day to day lives, so we were asked to retract it, and focus on something more acurate, such as HeroscapeUberNotoriousGamers

[daveblank]

Alright, alright, I registered for the site just to officially say I'll be there tomorrow. I'm not sure if anyone at the board game group will take me up on an invitation so it will probably be just me.

[bunjee]

Alright, alright, I registered for the site just to officially say I'll be there tomorrow. I'm not sure if anyone at the board game group will take me up on an invitation so it will probably be just me.Click the register button click the register button!

Don't you know that I'm trying to compete with the DFW Steers and Queers here!

[wisinger]

Alright, alright, I registered for the site just to officially say I'll be there tomorrow. I'm not sure if anyone at the board game group will take me up on an invitation so it will probably be just me.Click the register button click the register button!

Don't you know that I'm trying to compete with the DFW Steers and Queers here!

you watch it girl, i just got my horns polished and sharpened. but i guess i better watch it, because if i remeber right, your q9 was still standing when imax was focused on drinking more buttface, since his army was gone.

What am i doing posting in your thread anyway. am i crazy? this thread is going to start getting page counts close to our event threads.

[daveblank]

Click the register button click the register button!

Don't you know that I'm trying to compete with the DFW Steers and Queers here!

Done.


Uh...go team.

[brotharon]

Seattle Group owns you!

Mwahahahahahahaha

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[fuzzysadist]

http://upload4.postimage.org/893651/seattleheroscape.jpg

[Ursas]

Anyone up for a some team battles?

Also I called Wamart and the one in Everett said they had some wave 5 in stock. This was around 2 pm today. I am not driving all they way down there but those of you who already live there might want to check it out.

[Ursas]

errr one more thing, are we doing a draft or are people just playing some of the same heroes? I am up for either since this is my first time attending a get-together.

Just curious what people are bringing?

[bunjee]

oh, right, the game plan!

I was looking at pre-building the same maps that were used at gencon, and also having lists of what armies were used there. Mostly because the maps made for good game movement so that people could play a few different games.

Since there will be 5 tables, I'm going to also build 1 of the 2 master set maps from the official site.

More details later, time to go home!

[JanderSunstar]

oooh! if series 5 hit walmart, did we get ours yet?


I dont want to sound totally dumb, but i will ask anyway what does DFW mean?

[JanderSunstar]

Oh yeah!
That newbie i was telling you about can't come this weekend, so it'll just be the 3 of us.

$20 for those exclusive figs on ebay.
damn.

[JanderSunstar]

Nerak is going for $37, anyone want one for a bit less?

[philthephreak]

Yo bunjee, I didn't get an email from you... I checked my spam folder but I got nothin'. You can PM me if that works better.

See ya soon!

[KaimasterJoe]

I live in Bremerton, other side of the water but interested in future events. Let me know.

[Hahnarama]

I live in Bremerton, other side of the water but interested in future events. Let me know.

Get your ass on the 12:35 PM Ferry and get over there! :D

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/schedules/current/index.cfm?route=sea-br

[philthephreak]

DANG it I missed the game day today! Sorry everyone. I somehow missed the email, and I went online to HSers.com today to check my messages and the site was down! I didn't know where specifically it was so... lamo!

So, I'm bummed I missed out. How did it go everyone?

[JanderSunstar]

It was very much fun to meet every one and play. We had a lot of fun.
I always enjoy meeting new people that have the same interests.

We could even plan monthly/bi-monthly events if anyone else is game.[/quote]

[Sexecution]

Look, Ellian made me make him a profile....

[bunjee]

Thank you to all that made it, I had fun!

I do hope we can have gatherings on occasion. As long as the weather holds, playing outside is nice and allows for more people when at my house.

Next time, we'll start earlier since it will be getting dark earlier. Time to sleep now!

[Codeman]

Glad to hear your HS night went well, I wish my timing was better , I would have liked to been there. I did enjoy Seattle, your weather and town was great this past week... I had a good time ( even without playing HS )

[Faustus]

I'm bummed I wasn't able to make it, but hopefully I can come to future events and meet everyone!

Hey, for those of us in the Central District: We should exchange info so that we can have spontaneous events. You know, when plans fall through, you suddenly have a couple of hours to killl and you feel like playing heroscape? Then we can walk a couple of blocks and play!

Whattaya say?

And to everybody who lives in Seattle: I often try to host games on Fridays starting at around noon. Is anybody else free at that time to meet at my place for heroscape? You may need to bring some stuff, as thus far I only have two basic sets, and Utgar's Rage.

[bunjee]

How late do the Friday games usually go? I work on Friday's but depending on workload, may be able to get out a little early. I work near the UW so cutting over to the Central District is pretty easy for me.

[reapersaurus]

I'm curious how many people showed up, whether it was all free play or if there was a tournament, how it went, etc.

It's great to see another region have a Heroscape Get-Together and hopefully develop a regional presence to potentially generate a NorthWest Champion of HS.
That would be neat to have them travel to CA next year and participate in any of the West Coast Championships next year (likely @ Kublacon).

[Faustus]

The Friday games usually go from about 12-4. I also occasionally have games on Sundays, too...

[Ursas]

to Reaper,

It was very casusal ( which I loved ) no tourney , just some different boards were set up and we played. We swapped around players after each game. About 10-12 people showed up I believe. It lasted from 4 til ?? I had to leave about 9:30pm. Very nice group of people.

[brotharon]

I had a great time. It was fun to play against some different people, and try out some scenarios that we often do not have the players for! Looking forward to the next one!

[fuzzysadist]

So, I heard there was a discussion before I arrived to the event about Sparkly water vs 2nd Edition solid water. Personally, I don't care, but I have a 1st ed Master Set with a full set of sparkly water and I would like MORE water tiles then I have now. Anyone willing to trade me on a 3:1 or 2:1 ratio for my sparkly water?

Lemme know.
Fuzzy

[bunjee]

I'm curious how many people showed up, whether it was all free play or if there was a tournament, how it went, etc.

It's great to see another region have a Heroscape Get-Together and hopefully develop a regional presence to potentially generate a NorthWest Champion of HS.
That would be neat to have them travel to CA next year and participate in any of the West Coast Championships next year (likely @ Kublacon).

As others have said, all free play, no tourney setup. I really just wanted to get people together at my home for some casual scaping.

I had 5 tables available for playing on, 3 outdoors and 2 indoors. The weather was so nice we setup outdoors first. We settled on 3 maps:
Road to the Forgotten Forest (from RttFF manual) 2 players
Battlefield of Frozen Souls (from Tundra manual) 2-3 players
Wellspring of the Obsession (2 master set map from Heroscape.com) 4 players as 2 teams

This worked out great as some people there had not yet played on roads or Tundra. I would like to mention again that I really like the Frozen Souls map. It is a nice map to look at and a lot of fun to play for 2-3 players.

Road to the Forgotten Forest we didn't play as a scenario, we just did a kill all. My opponent hadn't played on roads before and I don't think the movement bonus impact sunk in early enough. Still fun. Ages ago I played with 2 other people (Elstree and Daveblank aka Daveman on older sites) using the fall of the dumutef bridge scenario, we each took a turn playing the defender spot, it was fun.

Wellspring of the Obsession is a lot of fun to play on, the guys that built it added a set of trees for texture and cover. The final built map barely fit on my larger folding table, the map measure 30-1/2"x49" and the table is 29-1/2" x 59-1/2" I played my second game of the evening as a team on this map for capture the flag, and, as mentioned in another thread, just used a slightly reduced version of my viper army that I had used in the first game. http://heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?t=1981

At the end of the night, the table with Wellspring was just carried around to the front door and brought in to the living room, where it still sits. When my 7-1/2 year old nephew came over today, he wanted to play a little bit. We abandoned even a Basic game after the first attack role I made would have murdered his big dragon. We just stomped pieces around the board and made Rawring noises.

Here is a photo of Saturday, click it for the much larger version. An interesting note, of the 9 people playing, 3 were women. That is a 1:3 girl to guy ratio for those keeping track. Not bad for a gaming group. And if Cornpuff and his lady had arrived earlier it would have been 11 people with 4 girls!
http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/10007/normal_seattlehs20060819.jpg (http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/10007/seattlehs20060819.jpg)

[daveblank]

Ages ago I played with 2 other people (Elstree and Daveblank aka Daveman on older sites) using the fall of the dumutef bridge scenario, we each took a turn playing the defender spot, it was fun.



Ooops! I couldn't remember which username I had on the old site so I picked one of my regulars. Looks like I guessed wrong.

It occurred to me while reading this that I only ended up playing the one game. Weird.

[JanderSunstar]

Looks what happens when you dont touch your computer for days...

We are looking to play some games tonight, 8/26, if anyone is interested, let me know.

[bunjee]

I'm working until 6pm so I'll have to see how I'm feeling after that.

[JanderSunstar]

why does it not say you are online?
anyway, give us a ring (actually its a 2001 a space oddessy but you get the idea...)

[bunjee]

why does it not say you are online?
anyway, give us a ring (actually its a 2001 a space oddessy but you get the idea...)probably because I was in another program, maybe the system is smart enough to pickup whether or not your active window is a forum window or not.

I have email notice turned on for this thread and the wa/oregon thread

[JanderSunstar]

I have email notice turned on for this thread and the wa/oregon thread
neat!

I was thinking we could call our group the WASH (WAShington Heroscapers)
we could take people to the cleaners...

[bunjee]

I have email notice turned on for this thread and the wa/oregon thread
neat!

I was thinking we could call our group the WASH (WAShington Heroscapers)
we could take people to the cleaners...Could even tidy it up to be:
WASH: WAshinton State Heroscapers (to differentiate us from those DC posers :P )

[JanderSunstar]

Or we could do WASH OUT
but i dont know what out would stand for.

[bunjee]

Or we could do WASH OUT
but i dont know what out would stand for.And I'm not sure I want people calling us "The Washouts" :lol:


By the way, anybody in the area, we are looking at playing at my house again tonight. I'll email a little later.

[Hahnarama]

So if you play tonight will the Glyph of Dog Poo be in play? :P

[bunjee]

So if you play tonight will the Glyph of Dog Poo be in play? :POnly when you play, Poodlehead.

[JanderSunstar]

I just spent all morning dividing out my figs, makeing lables for them, and writing #'s on the bottoms of our trees...

Ellian said he would be "off" at 4, so will will be up sometime after 5.